ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAMS OF "CONSTITUTIONALLY INFERIOR" AND BEHAVIOR PROBLEM CHILDREN

Abstract

The importance of the electroencephalogram as a clinical and experimental tool is constantly being demonstrated. Clinically, its most important applications have been in the diagnosis and study of epileptic and related conditions and in the discrimination and localization of tumors of the brain. Abnormal signs of other neurologic and psychiatric disorders have been recognized and studied, but so far with less marked success. One reason for this seems to be that there is a need for more detailed methods of analysis and quantification of records as well as the establishment of standards based on large numbers of so-called normal subjects. Experimentally, the correlation of the electrical activities of the brain with the functions of its various parts is being prosecuted chiefly in animals, and on this work much of the interpretation of the human electroencephalogram will ultimately depend. Important experimental contributions are also being made in the study of human